DURHAM, N.C. – Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe met with members of the media practically on Monday afternoon for his weekly press meeting.
The Blue Devils journey to Virginia on Saturday for their third ACC sport. The contest will be broadcast on the ACC Community with Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, and Eric Wooden on the phone. Kickoff is slated for 4:00 p.m. The video game can also be read on the Blue Devils IMG Sports Community through the TuneIn application or goduke.com
David Cutcliffe Duke Football Head Coach
(Ref.: Opening Statement)

“Naturally a distinctive weekend to deal with. Our team experienced great perform yesterday wasn’t straightforward to rekindle a fire but we ended up capable to do that. We have specifications that have to be satisfied. It’s been a one of a kind calendar year to say the minimum with working with all of the time away that the squad invested obtaining back in rhythm. Failed to enjoy nearly as very well the 2nd week as the 1st week, which places undoubtedly the pressure appropriate right here. I am 100 % liable for that simply because our criteria have to be set by the head football coach. I really don’t think you will find any problem that we have some fellas participating in actually nicely. Are unable to say plenty of terrific issues about the way we have pressured the quarterback. Victor Dimukeje has been outstanding. You see Chris Rumph II showing up, Ben Frye – the defensive entrance has definitely established a tone for us. I consider our offensive line has been greater. Devery Hamilton has played truly, truly perfectly. And that needs to be stated mainly because persons do not see that in close proximity to ample. But do we need consistency? Totally. Do we need a minor bit more hunger? Definitely. I’m looking ahead to this week of exercise. The alternatives as they current them selves continuing to transfer ahead and we will assault the difficulties. We’ve hardly ever run away from any concerns since we’ve been listed here and we are surely not working absent from this just one.”
(Ref.: On how the coaching staff has dealt with obtaining the defense ready for 2020)

“Effectively, just one of the points you do, and we’re in a position to do a large amount of is your make contact with just one on just one. So, we have a good deal of go rush do the job, our types vs . our types. We do half line go hurry do the job where you happen to be doing work your twist and diverse instances from ones vs . ones. I feel Mentor (Greg) Frey and Coach (Ben) Albert have carried out a fantastic occupation of performing that, of setting a tone. And I imagine that that experience of the defensive entrance is spending off. They fully grasp our requirements of participate in and the regularity we have to have. And I assume and I truly assume this to get better and much better. Now you’re going to run into some actually good offensive traces. Notre Dame experienced a person, unquestionably. Boston Faculty had a superior offensive line. But that is the perform that we’ve got to go get completed and hopefully we will get better as the time goes along and we will not see any type of fade off in that regard.”
(Ref.: On worries of finding organized whilst also battling COVID in apply:)

“We have not had as considerably of a COVID concern as some other groups as much as gamers currently being out of practice. The moment we’ve began practice, all of our complications had been behind us. Our gamers have been phenomenal. The point that you never have is that with either instances the place you have opt outs or you’ve experienced individuals that have some long time period injuries. And then you have a workforce which is 129 times without having an organized work out. I think the slowness of planning has been seriously difficult. The most complicated matter I have been all-around. We you should not have the numbers of people when it will come to non-scholarship and scholarship men and women that we’ve experienced accessible to practice. You happen to be attempting to reinvent the wheel rather than working with observe formulation and scripts that we’ve made use of for 20, 25 years that you know get a group completely ready to perform. We’re possessing to kind of step by move see what we have, do matters in another way and you’re to some degree having to study on the operate as to what is actually going to be efficient. Naturally, I hold myself responsible for that. I definitely was indignant with myself mainly because I failed to consider we have been as ready as we desired to be not only for Boston University but I imagined for Notre Dame. We’ve bought to choose those following steps. And when you miss some basis perform, which is what I feel we have lost, I assume that hurts us. We have standards we function by and the way we do points in no matter whether it can be crimson zone or whether or not it is any aspect of the game in kicking, any aspect of the offense or protection. Yes, I have a ton of problems still as to what’s likely to be the catch up mode when you have a distinctive circumstance to apply on Tuesday and Wednesday, which are your big get the job done times.”
(Ref.: On turnover fears and how to repair them)

“Effectively, I never tie anything into past 12 months and this year. There is certainly really no relationship with a lot of different gamers in the different circumstance. I imagine with us is what I just explained. You genuinely have a tough time figuring out appropriate in which we are. We have experienced a person scrimmage in the drop camp and that was it. We experienced no scrimmages from spring, which of course, we failed to get a spring. Attempting to get a crew sport ready, that’s one of the points I’ve critiqued myself as a enjoy caller, when you see points or you test points you superior know what is activity completely ready and I am not likely to blame a participant if it is not executed just like it should have been. If we have not put it in a circumstance wherever it truly is activity ready, it sort of goes back again to all of people difficulties.
“Now using treatment of the soccer. What I get in touch with keeping tummy down. I don’t want to see men and women carrying the ball with turning their belly up. All those are going to be fumbles. People have to end catches and operates. Quarterbacks have to be accountable wherever they put the ball. Receivers have to be accountable in which they are on the subject. If that appears like coaching it is on my part. You have to coach all of all those small items to take care of a soccer and set by yourself in situation to set touchdowns jointly. Reality is this – we’ve in all probability left eight touchdowns on the subject in two games and we know we turned it above five instances in this past ball sport. When you do that, you happen to be not going to earn. Can you take care of it? Sure, you have received to go take care of it out there on the practice area.”
(Ref.: On Virginia’s results in opposition to Duke considering the fact that Bronco Mendenhall took in excess of)

“They’re really a very good defensive systematic staff. I assume they’re as intricate defensively as any individual we play. They have completed a superior career of recruiting gamers. Their gamers are perfectly-well prepared. I’ve known Bronco for a lengthy, long time. They’ve had some superior fortune with some guys. You know Bryce Perkins coming in there manufactured a big variance. They ended up coastal division champions for a purpose a yr in the past, and they have bought a large amount of gamers back that return. They are just complicated for a good deal of people today. Unquestionably, we hadn’t played as nicely as we would like versus them and Virginia was a workforce we had been participating in effectively against. So, we have acquired to convert that worm and we just acquired to go out and do the points that you do to get soccer video games. Initially of all, as coach (Bear) Bryant made use of to say, far more online games are misplaced than received. We can not go out there and lose the match with turnovers and a yr ago, we wrapped up gifts and gave it to them.”
(Ref.: On not obtaining film on Virginia and enjoying in the opponent’s opener for the 3rd straight week)

“I don’t like openers, interval. I imagine it can be the craziest detail I have at any time been by way of. I question this has at any time occurred in university football exactly where a group experienced 3 openers a few game titles you enjoy wherever you have no film to analyze. We know a good deal about Virginia but you are nevertheless not looking at the 2020 variation of Virginia. Any modifications that they’ve produced, we really don’t know just what they’re going to be. It is really been challenging. Our gamers are a tiny irritable about it to be authentic truthful with you. It can be a exclusive location. It is what we have been given. We have to offer with it and just go forward.”
(Ref.: On Chase Brice’s enjoy so far)

“You can have to be distinct as to what they had been score Pro Football Concentration prices a large amount of items. Alright, so they like some of the significant performs that he’s made. There is no concern what I would say in that regard. A several scrambles, some wonderful throws towards Notre Dame. A really great, definitely, defensive football workforce that pitched a shutout the 2nd week. You can find no issue that he has favourable plays. What I am seeking for from Chase, from my point of view, is regularity. The initial task a quarterback has is to make the other 10 folks around him superior, proper. Alongside with this skill he has to make performs. We’re seeking for regularity. But he unquestionably has experienced some really optimistic performs that have impacted our team to this level in a positive way. I am assuming which is what they’re hunting at.”
(Ref.: On Chase Brice’s development and repairing some of the mistakes from past week)

“Nicely, you have to go by your development. One particular of the items that when you happen to be observing movie, and which is the most significant aspect of Sunday is correcting errors and hunting at the ballgame then you go out to observe and you might be in fact practicing in some of these conditions. But the most significant factor is a quarterback should under no circumstances surprise you with his selection generating if we are on the identical web page if development is happening as it must. Then you also have to realize that all people has to be on the very same web site. Component of a quarterback’s job during the week is to converse the functional element not only with me but with receivers. Get folks in which they have to have to be. And then yet again, when you’re functioning development operates. And so, discovering that regularity remaining in the new program is usually a little bit tough.”
(Ref.: On the defensive line – specifically Ben Frye and DeWayne Carter)

“Ben Frye, let’s just commence with him, is a veteran participant that hadn’t performed a lot due to the fact of injury. He is a incredibly sturdy youthful gentleman. His excess weight is not as considerably as people other men. He was a great wrestler in significant college. He is acquired excellent fingers and ft. He is tenacious. He’s acquired a ton of struggle in him. I love his spirit and frame of mind. DeWayne is a heck of an athlete. A big dude that is a heck of an athlete. He was a fantastic large school baseball player just a fantastic competent athlete once more with fantastic feet and fingers and he’s going to do very little but develop and develop. And I feel we have bought some definitely very good youthful defensive linemen that we are likely to see a little bit additional of as the year progresses. I am energized about that position now and as it really is coming forward.”
(Ref.: On the group registering to vote)

“Really happy of our group. We had today, on Monday morning our off day, an option to verify voter registration. And then people that were being not registered we were equipped to sign-up them. Our personnel in this article in soccer did a fantastic job with that. We were being thrilled that so lots of of them experienced taken the initiative we had specified them all the data to get registered. And so they had taken the initiative to register. We have received the other guys registered. We ought to have everyone voting now. And we are also doing work with them to get their absentee ballots despatched to them. So individuals that are registered in other states have the prospect to exercise their right to vote, which is a lot more critical than at any time.”
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